Fire Safety Talk for Year 1 and 2
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00The Fire Brigade came to give a talk to Year 1 and 2 today. Your child should have a really good idea of what the service does and how to keep safe. Stop, drop and roll!
Year 1 and 2 Tennis Festival
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00Year 1 and 2 were put through their tennis paces today at Tarka Tennis Centre in Barnstaple. The children were all brilliant and listened so well to the coaches. Braunton Academy lent a helping hand with some of their children to support us. Wimbledon here we come!
Making a didgeridoo!
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00We had so much fun learning about and making our own didgeridoo! We watched some videos of different people playing the didgeridoo and we each had a go on a real one. We used Aboriginal dot painting to decorate our didgeridoo, we worked carefully on different patterns and styles. We covered our cardboard tubes with brown paper and then used [...]
Investigating absorbent materials – Class 1
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00We've been looking at the different types of materials in Science. Today, we investigated which types of materials are absorbent and which are not. We talked about the types of materials we would use if we were going to mop up a spilled drink and which ones would not work. In our experiment we used; sponge, paper, cotton wool, plastic [...]
Plastic-Free Fraternity: a Great Global Community…
Julian Thomas2019-03-26T15:48:16+00:00As part of their topic on Sustainability... Class 4 loved taking part with BBC's Live Lessons this afternoon. They may not have mentioned the work we've been doing over the past couple of years, but we're proud that many, many other schools are following our footsteps in becoming Plastic Free. The children loved seeing what others had done and really [...]
Class 4 make some awesome music
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00Phil Heeley came into school today to introduce a new programme called EduBandLab which lets child create their own music tracks on the computer. Phil has been working with computer generated music for years and actually created Dance eJay which some of may have heard of. I will try to uploads some of the children's music over the next couple [...]
Class 3 visit Chapel Wood to find out about Britain’s woodlands
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00Class 3 picked a perfect day to visit Chapel Woods with the National Trust today - the sun even came out this afternoon! We were on a research mission to find out about the threats to Britain's woodland habitats, and the plants and animals that live there. Josh and the National Trust team showed us how how to work out [...]
Stepping Stones and the Jet Ski…
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00We cannot thank Phil from the RNLI enough for his exciting and insightful visit to Stepping Stones this morning. Not only did he take the time out of his day to visit us, he really did an excellent job of making it fun, interesting and engaging for the very young ages that he was presented with. Thinking ahead Phil sent [...]
Netball / Football Tournament
staff2022-08-18T13:27:09+01:00Well done to all the children who took part in yesterday's annual Netball/Football Tournament at Kingsacre.It was a great day, with lots of competition and some excellent behaviour! The 'netballers' played their first ever 5v5 game of netball - they lost two matches, drew one and won one. Well done girls! The two football teams both made it to their [...]
Measuring in class 1
staff2019-03-20T15:44:18+00:00This week we have started looking at different ways to measure length and height! We've done lots of different activities. We found out how tall our friends were using bricks; we put ourselves in order from shortest to longest and we used unifix cubes to measure different objects in the classroom! We even measured the giant didgeridoo - which was [...]